Pee Wee Time

Pee Wee Time  

By Paul Mc Cann

There is a long winding path that makes it way across the wild western plain to a place known as the edge of the horizon  . At the end of the edge they say there’s a green grassy hill that stands before the door of the sky . On the top of the hill there’s an old wooden bridge that spans a deep gushing stream called Happy River . A mile and a half past Happy River there’s a land that they called Teaklands .

In the heart of the Teaklands there’s a strange wide divide and where its said that the mountains had once crumbled and fell .

On one side of the divide there’s a place called granite hill where huge rocks are scattered for miles like monuments to what once was a mountain . On the other side of the divide there’s a dry dusty plain with cracks in the soil that seemed six miles deep . They say that it is here that the earth swallowed up an ancient city . In the middle of the divide there’s a place known as Sky Valley and its here that the Happy Sky Buffalo tribe live  .

The tribe are small in stature and innocent in their way. Untouched by greed and its importance with some of the people in the world who regard themselves as some kind of superior beings  .

The Happy Sky Buffalo tribe know nothing about high society or the corporate

Business world just at their doorstep . Once a year the tribe converge around the watering hole near the village to celebrate the great mystery of their existence since the first day the moon and sun appeared in the sky .

The wonder of innocence has a certain kind of magic property that seen to have kept the tribe young free and happy .  Anyway as I was saying at the beginning of each full moon the Happy Sky Buffalo tribe have this festival called  Dampum Some Wampum Umpteen Big Daddy Yungun Time or as it is better known Pee wee Time  .

At Pee Wee Time there are lots of fun times to be had be every one in the village . Like the set tasks put on place by the elders of the tribe , like the stand on a log event in the watering hole, with a primitive fishing line in your mouth ,with the end result of someone catching a fish . Then there’s the music and dance make up with all those involved dressed up in bright and fancy gear made specifically for tribal festival . Then of course there’s the Sky Buffalo test, where a member of the tribe has to invent a sound that resembles the call of a buffalos at sunset .

The night is full of fun and games . There is race the wild pig or prowl like a wolf and go howl at the moon . Other popular events are the spookiest looking face painting competition .

It’s a great festival with most of the tribe having fun .

The festival usually concludes with the Chief doing a  Wise Owl Hoot perched on a branch from a high tree .  There was a member of the tribe called White Cloud who was bored with the ritual of Pee Wee Time and for him each full moon was a drag . He just wanted something different . He needed excitement and was not content with the same old thing in Sky Valley . So one day he decided to run away .

White Cloud waited until the time was right and as the night fell and the full moon rose over Sky Valley he was gone . As the rest of the tribe slept he began his new adventure . For the first time in his life White Cloud felt free .

He ran through the wild wind until he was exhausted and then he walked for a way . It wasn’t that long before he came to the edge of the Valley where he looked up to Granite Hill . 

White Cloud made his way to the huge rocks and stayed a while there .

Then as the horizon opened up a new dawn he continued his journey across the edge of the horizon until he came to a hill where green grass almost touched  the sky . In this place White Cloud rested until he heard the sound of strange machines . He awoke to the rising sun on a hill where he was very much alone . He saw strange birds fly in the sky and heard their loud and ear piercing echoes . Some of these birds left white smoke trails across the sky .

White Cloud was a little frightened but continued his adventure . Soon he came to the edge of a dry dusty plain where he found water and rested there for a while . The next part of his journey took him to a forest where he saw men with strange machines cutting down tall trees .

He soon was able to see beyond the forest what looked like tall Tee Pees . with smoke pouring from the rooves  . The smoke slithered across the sky like a snake winding into the sun where it was burned up and disappeared. White Cloud wandered into the big smoke and found square shaped things With wheels racing back and forward making weird sounds .

He thought they were monsters but then he saw people getting out of them and walking away unharmed . He tried to speak to them but they just ignored him . He walked around in a kind of trance checking things out .

The streets were full of colourful characters . After while White Cloud climbed up a tree to escape the madness of all that he saw .

From up there he watched huge machines digging holes in the ground and other machines with claw like arms pull trees out from the earth . He became very frightened and remained hidden up the tree .As the days passed into weeks he decided to return to his village .

Suddenly a man with a very noisy hand held machine began to cut down the tree where he was hiding . White Cloud jumped down and ran for his life .

A group of workmen chased White Cloud and eventually surrounded him .

They held these strange things that looked like  metal sticks in their hand and pointed it at him . They spoke in a language he couldn’t understand . Suddenly from out of the blue members of his tribe came to his rescue . They had been tracking White Cloud for days and finally found him .

They were all armed with bows and arrows and one by one the Happy Sky Buffalo warriors began to fire their arrows at these monsters with wheels .

Each arrow bounced off the machines . There was nothing that arrows could do to hurt these monsters . One of them swung around and opened up itsd jaws and lifted a large rock from the ground . The machine raised the roak into the air and dropped it nearby as if it were a feather .

The Happy Sky Buffalo tribe were in awe at this monster .  Suddenly they all began to fire their arrows again . Same as before their arrows deflected off the monsters skin . The loud sound of a horn almost burst the tribes eardrums and the beast turned around and stopped right in front of them . A man jumped out from Monsters head and left in a hurry .All the monsters were now silent and the tribe made their escape .

The small group of Happy Sky Buffalo warriors soon returned back to the village  and lived a long and happy life near the watering hole .

White Cloud had come to the decision to stay where he was in the peaceful surroundings of his tribe .

THE END